DIDION AND BABITZ (PB)

7406 Franklin Avenue was the making of one great American writer: Joan Didion, a mystery behind her dark glasses and cool expression. It was also the breaking and then the remaking of another great American writer: Eve Babitz a woman who burned so hot she finally almost burned herself alive. They formed a complicated alliance, a friendship that went bad. With deftness and skill, journalist Lili Anolik uses Babitz's brilliance of observation, Babitz's incisive intelligence and, most of all, Babitz's diary-like letters - as the key to unlocking Didion.